Pennsylvania legalized many fireworks in 2017. Several lawmakers there want to rein the sales in, citing noise, fires and ‘chaos.’
In Depth
When Labs Go Online: For Some College Majors, Remote Learning Means Extra Hurdles
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Classes for certain college majors, the move to remove learning has been especially jarring, as science labs and acting workshops don’t translate so easily to Zoom.
Age Justice
He was Waiting for Clemency. Now He’s Fighting Coronavirus.
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Robert Lind, 73, is serving a 50-years-to-life sentence for a shooting in 1983.
Coronavirus
COVID-19 at the Mitchel Houses: Communication Issues, Cleaning Delays and a Farewell to Mr. Mercado
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Cleaning is now being done in earnest, residents say, but delays in basic maintenance have been the norm for years.
Coronavirus
Housing Worry for Laborers as New York’s Farms Slip Deeper into Trouble
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Undocumented migrant farm workers are facing evictions as farms in upstate New York encounter financial losses, according to farm worker advocacy groups.
Age Justice
A Nursing Home Had One COVID Case. Then Came the New, Infected Patients.
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The award-winning home struggled to keep its workforce equipped, to separate the staff dealing with infected and non-infected people, and to understand what the state’s official death toll has to do with reality.
Coronavirus
Hotels as COVID Convalescent Homes: Challenges for Patients, Staff
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After three deaths at a hotel in Manhattan earlier this month, New York City promises increased resources for its program providing isolation hotels.
Coronavirus
More Questions Than Answers About the Racial & Ethnic Skew in COVID-19 Deaths
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There’s been less discussion of how underlying conditions and longstanding inequalities actually translated into deaths, or about other factors that might help to explain the racial disparities characterizing COVID-19’s impact.
doccs
Unclear How Many NYS Prison Deaths Are Being Investigated
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City Limits contacted the medical examiners or coroners in all 26 New York counties were DOCCS has facilities. Most who responded said they were not investigating any prison deaths.
Coronavirus
Undocumented, Essential and Sick: COVID-19 Comes to the Farm
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First came the fever, then dark urine and diarrhea, then a cough ‘that wanted to tear my throat up.’ And then his roommate got sick, too.
Coronavirus
Decades of Shrinking Hospital Capacity ‘Spelled Disaster’ for New York’s COVID Response
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New York has closed dozens of hospitals in the last few decades, the result of larger healthcare trends, policy shifts and cost-cutting efforts. But that downsizing has been “called into question” by the coronavirus pandemic, experts say.